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Can virtual reality help us prevent falls in the elderly and others?

Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)

In a study published in Nature Scientific Reports, a research team led by Jason R. Franz, PhD, assistant professor in the Joint UNC/NC State department of biome...

Finding order and structure in the atomic chaos where materials meet

Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)

"We've known that these grain boundaries influence material characteristics for many decades," says Srikanth Patala, corresponding author of a paper on the work...

Call for a sustainable future in space

Apr 21, 2017 (ESA)

"We require a coordinated global solution to what is, after all, a global problem that affects critical satellites delivering services to all of us," said Brigi...

Lasers measure jet disintegration

Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)

Rocket engines, gas turbines and diesel engines experience conditions in their combustion chamber that exceed the critical conditions of their fuel, and supercr...

'Twist and shine': Development of a new photoluminescent sensor material

Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)

Such light-based sensing molecules, also called photoluminescent mechanophores, are not new, but currently available applications are single-use only. They woul...

Leybold simplifies repairs and maintenance through Augmented Reality

Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)

The real-time visualizations and context-related information concepts are not new to the renowned pump manufacturer. Since the year 2016, Leybold has been using...

Apple touts greater use of recycled metal in gadgets

Apr 20, 2017 (AFP)

"Traditional supply chains are linear," it said. "Materials are mined, manufactured as products, and often end up in landfills after use. Then the process start...

4-D printing gets simpler and faster

Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)

However, 4D printing generally involves complex and time-consuming post-processing steps to mechanically programme the component. Furthermore, the materials are...

Computers create recipe for two new magnetic materials

Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)

Although magnets abound in everyday life, they are actually rarities - only about five percent of known inorganic compounds show even a hint of magnetism. And o...

Tiny Probes Hold Big Promise for Future NASA Missions

Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)

The Conformal Ablative Thermal Protection System, or CA-TPS, will be installed on a small probe flight article provided by Terminal Velocity Aerospace (TVA) and...

Tweaking a molecule's structure can send it down a different path to crystallization

Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)

"The findings address an ongoing debate about crystallization pathways," said materials scientist Jim De Yoreo at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest N...

Japanese Cloud Radar payload ready for final spacecraft assembly

Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)

In the coming weeks, JAXA and ESA teams will run final checks on the instrument before giving a "green light" to the Airbus project team to integrate it with th...

Waste Cadets: space plans mean more space junk, harder space exploration

Apr 19, 2017 (Sputnik)

A variety of companies, including Google, SpaceX, Boeing and Samsung, are vying to launch global broadband networks via the deployment of thousands of micro sat...

Space debris problem getting worse, say scientists

Apr 18, 2017 (AFP)

In less than a quarter of a century, the number of orbiting fragments large enough to destroy a spacecraft has more than doubled, a conference in Germany heard....

SSL completes agreement to partner with DARPA on satellite servicing

Apr 18, 2017 (SPX)

SSL is a U.S. company, which employs more than 2,000 people in Palo Alto, California, where it has done business for 60 years. The work scope for the DARPA miss...

France's Melenchon returns with campaigning hologram

Apr 18, 2017 (AFP)

For his last major rally before Sunday's nailbiting first-round vote, the resurgent leftwinger killed seven birds with one stone by transmitting his onstage app...

New method for 3-D printing extraterrestrial materials

Apr 13, 2017 (SPX)

Northwestern University's Ramille Shah and her Tissue Engineering and Additive Manufacturing (TEAM) Laboratory have demonstrated the ability to 3D-print structu...

Ultra-thin multilayer film for next-generation data storage and processing

Apr 12, 2017 (SPX)

The nano-sized thin film, which was developed in collaboration with researchers from Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, and Louisiana State...

Recent advances and new insights into quantum image processing

Apr 12, 2017 (SPX)

Quantum image processing (QIP) is an emerging sub-discipline that is focused on extending conventional image processing tasks and operations to the quantum comp...

USC Viterbi researchers develop new class of optoelectronic materials

Apr 12, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers at USC Viterbi, led by Jayakanth Ravichandran, an assistant professor in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences an...